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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
730 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 37
After five days of voluminous evidence in the Guyra fire trial, which is being heard before Judge Mocatta at the Armidale Quarter Sessions, both the case for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Returning to court at 10 o'clock last night, after a retirement lusting since the late afternoon, the jury in the Guyra Ore trial found See Lun and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A shop occupied by Messrs. Capewell and Taylor, in Booke-street, Wallsend, was gutted by are late this afternoon. A house adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aroused by the continual barking of a dog, Ernest Lombo, of Grassmere-street, Lindfield, found that his home was on fire this morning. Jumping out of bed, he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A remarkable story was told to the Workers' Compensation Commission today by Louis Hapton Taylor, a motor mechanic, who brought a claim against his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welsh's crime was most serious. It involved not only the swindling of the insurance company, but the endangering of lives and property of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Evidence in the ease in which William See Lun, Bridget Agnes See Lun, and Thomas Michael Welch were charged with having, at Guyra, on April 6, maliciously…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →That an attempt had been made to burn down her primitive dwelling in the unemployed camp at Nobbya was the startling allegation made to Newcastle Police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By confining the flames to the blazing adjoining workshop and storeroom Wallsend Fire Brigade, under the direction of Captain T. Fogo, effected a smart save at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The protracted hearing, in the Guyra fire trial, occupying seven days, concluded this morning, when Judge Mocatta passed sentence on Thomas Michael…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Apart from the compulsory conference, the only move in Melbourne in connection with the shipping strike to-day was the paying off of the crew of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"I must do it for the sake of the wife and kids." "I will put it up to-night." Frederick Richard Allan Stevens,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sensational allegations against the licensee of the Copmanhurst Hotel, which was gutted by fire in the early hours of September 1, were made to-day by a hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire started in the roof of the Tivoli Stores, Castlereagh-street, Sydney, this morning, but a big force of firemen distinguished the flames before much damage…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An outbreak of fire in a quantity of of rubbish in a recess beneath a window of a newsagency in Hunter-street West. Newcastle, conducted by Mr. Harry Oates,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Damage estimated at about £200 was caused by a fire this afternoon, which destroyed the Harwood Hotel at Harwood Island…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The bandits this afternoon entered the office of Mr. A. Hellyer, a gold-smith on the second floor of Lawson Chambers, Elizabeth-street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A 12-hour fire on the Prince of Wales's High River, Alberta, station destroyed 13 head of prize cattle. Dr. Carlyle, manager of the station,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At the conclusion of the inquiry into the fire which destroyed the Copmanhurst Hotel on September 1, the Coroner committed the licensee of the hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An inquiry into the circumstances of the fire which destroyed a cottage, owned and occupied by Mr. Edmund Ferguson, in West-street, Greta, on October 10, was…
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